ASRock Tech Support says none of their boards support S3 standby

[BruceDickinson]

After much research and effort trying to get my ASRock 775i65gv to go into S3 standby / suspend to RAM, I have learned that the board is incapable of doing this, even though there is a "Suspend to RAM" bios option.

As a general FYI, I wanted to alert folks that an ASRock tech support representative stated: 1) S3 standby and "suspend to RAM" are not the same thing; and 2) NONE of ASRock's boards support S3 standby. While I believe that both of these statements are incorrect, I thought people should be aware of what appears to be ASRock's official position. FWIW, I asked the representative if I could relay his statements to the internet community.

Bottom line: if S3 is important to you, I would avoid ASRock boards.

 

[Dunar]

are you...THE "Bruce Dickinson"?

hehe couldn't resist. Ya ASROCK, MSI, ECS have been on the questionable list on quality and Tech Support. My worse case was with a MSI it took them 2 weeks to reply to an email and it was had to have been Babblefished. Stick with quality; Asus, Gigabyte, ABIT maybe EVGA (haven't used it so can't comment totally)